“This remarkably elegant new gallery space is the perfect venue for exhibitions such as ‘Fine Lines’ where the space, intimate yet expansive, beautifully shows our important holdings of drawings to their best advantage,” Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman said in a statement. “It is a significant step in the transformation of the Museum’s first floor into spaces that are dynamic, welcoming, and engaging for all of our visitors.”

The next step in the museum’s ambitious renovation and expansion project — which began with the construction of its glassy entrance pavilion, inaugurated in 2004 — will be a revamped ground floor gallery space for the museum’s collection of African art. That will be followed by a thorough updating of its second floor galleries devoted to Asian and Islamic art. In addition to these gallery upgrades, back-of-house logistics like infrastructure and climate control systems are also being upgraded.